1git-applymbox(1) 2================ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-applymbox - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-applymbox' [-u] [-k] [-q] ( -c .dotest/<num> | <mbox> ) [ <signoff> ] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Splits mail messages in a mailbox into commit log message, 16authorship information and patches, and applies them to the 17current branch. 18 19 20OPTIONS 21------- 22-q:: 23 Apply patches interactively. The user will be given 24 opportunity to edit the log message and the patch before 25 attempting to apply patch in each e-mail message. 26 27-k:: 28 Usually the program 'cleans up' the Subject: header line 29 to extract the title line for the commit log message, 30 among which (1) remove 'Re:' or 're:', (2) leading 31 whitespaces, (3) '[' up to ']', typically '[PATCH]', and 32 then prepends "[PATCH] ". This flag forbids this 33 munging, and is most useful when used to read back 'git 34 format-patch --mbox' output. 35 36-u:: 37 By default, the commit log message, author name and 38 author email are taken from the e-mail without any 39 charset conversion, after minimally decoding MIME 40 transfer encoding. This flag causes the resulting 41 commit to be encoded in utf-8 by transliterating them. 42 Note that the patch is always used as is without charset 43 conversion, even with this flag. 44 45-c .dotest/<num>:: 46 When the patch contained in an e-mail does not cleanly 47 apply, the command exits with an error message. The 48 patch and extracted message are found in .dotest/, and 49 you could re-run 'git applymbox' with '-c .dotest/<num>' 50 flag to restart the process after inspecting and fixing 51 them. 52 53<mbox>:: 54 The name of the file that contains the e-mail messages 55 with patches. This file should be in the UNIX mailbox 56 format. See 'SubmittingPatches' document to learn about 57 the formatting convention for e-mail submission. 58 59<signoff>:: 60 The name of the file that contains your "Signed-off-by" 61 line. See 'SubmittingPatches' document to learn what 62 "Signed-off-by" line means. You can also just say 63 'yes', 'true', 'me', or 'please' to use an automatically 64 generated "Signed-off-by" line based on your committer 65 identity. 66 67 68SEE ALSO 69-------- 70link:git-applypatch.html[git-applypatch]. 71 72 73Author 74------ 75Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 76 77Documentation 78-------------- 79Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 80 81GIT 82--- 83Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 84